Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ingroups And Outgroups, Fundamentalism, Social Dominance Orientation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Herrey

Document Summary

What is prejudice: prejudice is an attitude. However, the presence of stereotypically feminine words did not differ for male-and female dominated occupations: knowledge of stereotypes allows us to make quick, efficient judgements, thereby saving cognitive energy. What we believe: stereotypes: our stereotypes are not activated in every situation, the activation of stereotypes, studies have shown that the physical environment can trigger automatic thinking about race and crime, automatic vs. Controlled processing of stereotypes: even people who are not prejudiced can be influenced by stereotypes, for people who are not deeply prejudiced, controlled processes can suppress or override stereotypes, 2-step model of cognitive processing, 1. Automatic processing brings up information, in this case, stereotypes. But the controlled (or conscious) processing can refute or ignore it: 2. [study]: gender stereotypes: if a man was successful on a task, observers attributed his success to ability, if a woman was successful at that same task, observers attributed her success to hard work.